The European Commission will help to turn this into reality by co-funding centers of competence for digitization and providing a truly European framework for protecting, accessing and using intellectual property rights in digital libraries. Member states will have to do their bit by providing the basic means for digitization. |
The future of our telecom market is not in establishing new monopolies on the basis of the old ones, which over the years we have managed to dismantle. |
The time for action is now. |
There is a problem as many parts of the world don't like the fact that one country is linked to the organism that technically rules the internet, ... Many countries would like a multilateral approach. |
There must not be any government involvement in the day-to-day management of the Internet, neither one of the U.S. government nor by any other government. |
There needs to be a clear agenda, because the uncertainty that is going on over third generation ... is not good for the industry -- neither for the Chinese nor for the Europeans. |
This will help the market develop without the need of further regulation at EU level, |
Today's parents and teachers want internet safety tools and skills. We must get more actively involved in our children's use of new media and in teaching them to use the internet safely, |
We have no intention to regulate the internet, |
We want consumers to ask for lower prices and the companies to offer them. |
Who in this room is in favor of child pornography on the new media? Who stands for the freedom to spread incitement to racial hatred on the new media? |